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July 2016 • Craig A. Stewart, David Y. Hancock, Matthew Vaughn, Jeremy Fischer, T.M. Cockerill, Lee Liming, Nirav Merchant, Therese M. Miller, John Michael Lowe,…
Jetstream is a first-of-a-kind system for the NSF - a distributed production cloud resource. The NSF awarded funds to create Jetstream in November 2014. Here we review the purpose for creating Jetstream, present the acceptance test results that define Jetstream’s key characteristics, describe our experiences in standing up an OpenStack-based cloud environment, and share some of the early scientific results that have been obtained by researchers and students using this system. Jetstream offers unique capability wit…